[OldMissileer]

Opening the case and destroying only the disks is all that is required but the fire has to be REALLY hot to burn the disks. They are metal.

When I replace my hard drives I take apart the old ones and remove the actual metal disks. I then use a pair of long handle needle nose pliers to hold each disk and melt it with a MAP gas torch.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“When I replace my hard drives I take apart the old ones and remove the actual metal disks. I then use a pair of long handle needle nose pliers to hold each disk and melt it with a MAP gas torch.”

That’ll do it. MAPP gas gets hot enough.